Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, who serves as assistant secretary-general of the United National for Africa in its departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO), will deliver the commencement address at Dominican College”™s 68th commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, at noon at Clover Stadium in Pomona. Pobee”™s interest in international relations and diplomacy was first sparked as a high school student in Cape Coast, Ghana, where she joined a school club called Ghana United Nations Students Association. It was then she began to closely follow the anti-apartheid struggle, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights and economic development issues. A graduate of the University of Ghana, she considers her appointment as Ghana”™s first woman permanent representative to the United Nations (2015-2020) to be the highlight of her career. Her latest appointment at the UN follows impressive diplomatic posts in Moscow, Geneva, Tel Aviv, South Africa, New York and Washington, D.C.
